City of Villains Beta Info
by Maarten Goldstein, Oct 28, 2004 10:57am PDTGameSpot has a story up about beta testing plans for City of Villains. The longer you've been subscribed to City of Heroes, the better your chance is to get in. There's no word on when the beta will actually start though.
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I'm skeptical that PvP would really do much for me, other than perhaps Team vs Team play, where some strategy would be involved. I'm used to PvP in skill based games like FPSes, and so I fail to see what would be exciting about competing in something where whether or not you win is mostly determined by how the devs have balanced things. It seems to me that whoever wins the most is simply going to be the prime candidate for the nerf bat.
I'd like to see MMORPGs that have a mix of skill and accomplishment. Right now it looks to me like all MMORPGs are completely accomplishment based. How powerful you are is almost completely determined by how long you've played the game. Not surprising that they are using that same metric for who they let into their beta.
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"Further info:
The calculation for "time played" will be the number of times you have paid for a month. If you have paid for the subscription 6 times = 6 months. If you purchased a year subscription that =12 months.
Beta does not count in this equation."
Jeez what a pathetic attempt. This looks like a money grab before WoW.
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For the most part, I see City of Villains to be a last ditch effort to keep the game going -- i.e., Jump to Lightspeed (for SWG), because as the first post said: "No one is gonna play this with WoW and EQ2 coming out..."
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albeit consensual PvP but it should be fun I've been subscribed for a while so my spot should be secure by the time this drops.
CoH was so much for a little bit, if just had a little more to do... :(